added by the Contributor, such addition of the Contribution causes such combination to be covered by the Licensed Patents. The patent license shall not apply to any other combinations which include the Contribution. No hardware per se is licensed hereunder. c) Recipient understands that although each Contributor grants the licenses to its Contributions set forth herein, no assurances are provided by any Contributor that the Program does not infringe the patent or other intellectual property rights...

  Promote node.k8s.io API groups from v1beta1 to v1. ([#95718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95718), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

* The dockershim container runtime now accepts the `docker` runtime handler from a RuntimeClass. ([#78323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78323), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
* GCE: Disable the Windows defender to work around a bug that could cause nodes to crash and reboot ([#78272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78272), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

* Windows nodes on GCE now run with Windows Defender enabled. ([#81625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81625), [@pjh](https://github.com/pjh))



# v1.16.0-beta.1

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

## Downloads for v1.16.0-beta.1

- Allow CSI drivers to just run offline expansion tests (#102740, @gnufied) [SIG Storage and Testing]
- Bump klog to v2.9.0, fixing log lines that render as byte arrays (#105407, @ehashman) [SIG Architecture, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Storage]
- Fix overriding logs files on reboot. (#105614, @rphillips) [SIG Node]

#### New Deprecations

* As a reminder, etcd2 as a backend is deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.13. Please ensure that your clusters are upgraded to etcd3 as soon as possible.

### Docs

* 📝 Update data structure and render for external-links. PR [#10495](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/10495) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).